Pastoral Resources

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand.